Texas Longhorns Earn Impressive Preseason Baseball Ranking

The Texas Longhorns will start the college baseball season as one of the top ranked teams in the country

June 1, 2024; College Station, TX, USA; Texas Longhorns catcher Kimble Schuessler (10) celebrates a double against the Texas A&M Aggies during the second round in the NCAA baseball College Station Regional at Olsen Field College Station. Mandatory Credit: Dustin Safranek-Imagn Images | Dustin Safranek-Imagn Images

The Texas Longhorns had the regular season they were looking for in year one of Jim Schlossnagle for the 2025 season, named SEC Champions in the regular season.

However, a disappointing end to the season, which left them eliminated in their own regional during the summer tournament, left a sour taste in their mouth. Now revamped and reloaded, the Longhorns look to rectify their wrongs from the season and make their way back to Omaha.

Expectations are high for the ball club, with many rankings placing them in the top-10, including the newest version from Baseball America, which slotted the Longhorns in as the number eight-ranked team before the season begins.

Locked and Loaded

June 1, 2024; College Station, TX, USA; Fans welcome the Texas Longhorns to the field at the start of the second round in the NCAA baseball College Station Regional against the Texas A&M Aggies at Olsen Field College Station. Mandatory Credit: Dustin Safranek-Imagn Images | Dustin Safranek-Imagn Images

The Longhorns were the team of the news cycle before last season, having made headlines after pulling away Schlossnagle from their bitter rivals, the Texas A&M Aggies, despite having just led them to a national championship appearance.

The decision immediately proved fruitful for the Longhorns baseball program, which needed a boost of energy from a new face in the dugout. They had their best record of the past 15 years, finishing 44-14 and bringing an SEC title back to Austin in their first year in the conference.

Now with plentiful talent returning to campus for the 2026 season, headlined by Dylan Volantis, the reigning Baseball America national Freshman of the Year, who could be in line for even more awards if he continues to build off his impressive freshman season. Volantis is part of the 76 percent of pitchers from last season returning this year, who had the sixth-best ERA in the country.

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The Longhorns also added plenty of new faces to the returning talent from last season, welcoming 14 freshmen and 10 transfers, which made up the No. 1 recruiting class in the country, according to Baseball America. Two new additions, Carson Tinney and Aiden Robbins, earned preseason All-American recognition from Perfect Game.

Of the three major college baseball ranking sites, the Longhorns have been consistently ranked in the top-10 so far, reaching as high as third from D1Baseball, while also being named eighth from Perfect Game.

With just under a month until the season kicks off in the 2026 calendar year, the Longhorns have a lot to prove in year two of the Schlossnagle reign. Still, between the returning talent and the newest additions, they have a full roster and the depth pieces necessary to make a run for their first national championship since 2005.